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" ... Many of the rebels, she says, are not traditional indigenous farmers living on their ancestral plots but rather “the innovators: adventurous frontiersmen and women who were convinced that they could make a new world.” The rebels, she says, are the men and woman who ventured off of the plantations that dominated Chiapas’ economic life for the bulk of the state’s history, and settled onto remote plots of land in the rugged jungle terrain near Chiapas’ southern border with Guatemala. Just like Emiliano Zapata who led the revolution in Morelos at the start of the twentieth century, “the new Zapatistas were not the most backward, or even the poorest, campesinos of Chiapas.” The new Zapatistas, Guillermo implies, are active political agents who have decided to use violence as a means of starting a new policy discussion in a new arena in order to win tangible reforms and material improvements. Guillermoprieto cites the example of one masked militiaman, who explained at a press conference in 1994 that the Zapatistas in Chiapas were asking for Land, Liberty, Health, Education, Housing, Work, and Regional Autonomy. “This is what all the Indian campesinos of Mexico want. And until we get it we won’t stop fighting,” she quotes him as saying. Guillermoprieto explains that even though both Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico’s presidents from 1988 to 1994 and 1994 to 2000, both embraced the symbolism of the Revolution by naming their sons Emiliano after the original Zapata, both presidents failed to deliver policy platforms that attended to the interest of Zapata’s true heirs: the former plantation peons who were working to eke out a living on small farms in the most remote and impoverished pockets of the country. Watching and writing as these events unfolded, Guillermoprieto weaves anecdotes from her reporting trip and tidbits from her interviews with Zapatista leaders into a rich narrative that provides the reader with a complex and well-researched picture of the context behind the rebellion. ... "